We are a group of Reprobates known as the eRag gang.
We started an underground magazine in 2010, mostly because we were sick of reading sad corporate drivel. Our magazine was a throwback and none of our content was influenced by advertisers (but they sure tried). We've been black balled by more companies than we care to admit. This rag of a magazine (find all back issues on our website) spawned an enduro adventure tour company, because we learned that other Reprobates wanted to come along on our silly adventures.
We spend time-well-wasted with characters like Barry Morris from Cross Training Enduro Skills, world-class rider Tim Coleman and mechanic extraordinaire Chuck Harder. Subscribe if you enjoy philosophical musings and nonsense aimed at the 40 plus crowd. If you are bored and lonely, you can find out more about us here: www.tractionerag.com
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One of the best biker videos ever made.
Happy to hear Larry and Paul are still riding
This video was original released in 2016 on the channel of a production partner. We just never got around to uploading it to our channel as well! The good news? As of 2024 Larry and Paul are still riding.
Excellent Videography! Inspirational Content!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I just bought a new bike at 60 years old. Figured I can make it to 65. But if Im still riding at 70 it better not be on a 10 year old bike.
What a fantastic mini, doco. Paul and Larry, you are an inspiration. I can’t ever imagine not riding, I don’t know what I would do. Here’s hoping I’m riding into my 70’s and beyond. @traction eRag, well done and keep em coming 👍🏻
These old guys are great, wicked video !! I am only 48 but one of my best riding friends is 74 and he goes like stink, he backs away from nothing, rides 10 hour days without bitching and every time we welcome new young men onto rides you see them thinking oh shit it's gonna be a slow day - 10 minutes later they are wondering wtf and even more so when we stop and chat and they find out his age....KEEP GOING MEN AND WOMEN, stay fit as you can and keep riding 🙂
These guys talk just like my father does about hunting. He has always said if he died in the woods chasing whitetail or chasing elk through the mountains then he would be a happy man. No need for a burial just let the bears and lions get him. He's also always said the mountains and forests have blessed family with food since he was a boy. So it may ask for a gift in return. He's 67 and still bow hunting like he's in his 30's and 40's. Also still gets out and trail rides with me a couple times a year.
Awesome video. This is a repost or a remake though isn't it Dallas? Or were parts shared before? Excellent anyways I hope I make the next twenty years to he riding at 74
It was originally published on the channel of one of our production partners, Russ. We just never got around to putting it on our own channel.
@@TractioneRag Makes sense, I was fairly certain it was not just my age and ADD screwing with me. Great piece.
Thanks for reposting, the older I get, the more I can relate😁
Being 63 and still riding as hard as I have in my long career of riding and racing, these guys are who I hope to be in my 70’s and older!
I met Larry at the Cord 2 years ago. When I recognized him I said: " I wanna be like you when I grow up". I'm 42. What a legend, so nice and so humble.
This video and their stories are awesome!
Hope they are still riding.
Nxt level guys, more great Canadian and American folk
why does every creator like this add music to the video. why can't we just listen to the sound of the bikes.
Do they just invent "problems"....or ? ABS ? 25 times ?fx. Pull the fuse, and you newer have to turn off abs again
Chinese crap, made by slave labor.
I have some thoughts of the over heat problem described in the last bit of the video. I don't think that is a bug, the thing is, when you depress the kill switch, it also disconnects the fan power( may be because of laws and regulations?) . So if you ride it pretty hard and come to a sudden stop, I guess they want the fan running until it can make sure the temp is low enough with out it. I would say that flashing over heat dial is a reminder, they could have done it better tho.
When it comes to the engine in the 450 being a Zongshen that is a good thing because next to CF Moto they are one of the best Motorcycle engine manufacturers in China. Zongshen has their own race program with sponsored riders that compete in GP, Enduro, cross country, and trials type racing. Kove was smart by adopting both Zongshen and CF Moto engines for their bikes. I would be curious to see if Kove adopts any of CF Moto's smaller displacement parallel twins to power other Rally styled machines? I had the chance to ride a CF Moto 450 NK recently and quite honestly I was surprised at how lively that engine was for being only 50 HP and roughly 30 lb-ft of torque. It gets roughly 55 to 60 mpg in stock configuration which if you were to pair that with an 8 gallon fuel capacity that would offer nearly 450 miles of range. I would think that for a more street oriented with some trails ADV touring on a small displacement bike such a combination of engine performance and fuel capacity would be very advantageous. The 800cc engine that Kove is using from CF Moto is the 790 Duke engine with a different tune. CF Moto manufactures many of KTM's ADV bike engines including the 790 "800“ engine. So if Kove has the chops for building a durable chassis to house a CF Moto or Zongshen engine, I do not see reliability being an issue. As with any mechanical device how someone services it and cares for it over the long haul is going to determine its longevity in usability. That is not to say that mechanical failures can't or won't happen but that is true of anything with an engine regardless of its country of manufacture. I would love to have one of these for a year round commuter as long as I could affix a pannier set on it. I am not a fair weather rider but won't take my 65 year old Harley out in the snow. I love motorcycles and this would make a perfect all season for no apparent reason just go ride machine.
"overheating" message when killswitch is pressed it's not a glitch. It's just a sign that you have killswitch pressed... Do you remember older suzuki bikes? When you pressed killswitch you had "check" "error" on the dashboard - that not an error nor glitch. Its just a design they wanted it. Same for Kove. Peace!
klr built w rotopacs 1st gen or newer or 2nd, springs, pipe etc
these got 50 hp w pipe. ktm is 75 but is a big bike the 450 is like 58 hp 500 is like 60 hp also valves
a built klr 1st gen or a reiju 500 adv legend , a clone of the henjain daiadao.. klr is cheaper used n build it
Love to see a F900GS next
The only really soft tires I've used are the Shinko 505, and I really like them. Probably not nearly as soft as the Motoz, but they are surprisingly durable, good teaction, and fairly cheap. I'm sure they wont last long if you like to throw a roost at every chance, but there's enough traction they don't spin and wear as much as I expected. I don't ride nearly as much as I'd like to, but the first one i out on my YZ250 lasted 4 or 5 seasons. I turned it around a couple times to the sharper side though.
The whole industry is hyper-commercialized, including the professional motorcycle bum--I mean skills training--people. I say no bling and practice on your own, perhaps with books or training videos. You don't need to shell out $10K to fly to Timbuktu to ride, you can do it in your own backyard.
The 2008 berg 650 always impresses with its deafening sonic boom on a group ride. Covered in yellow cloth tape for safety adds to the appeal aswell
From this video, I think it's great what this Chinese man has done. That was him riding the old bike? And he's went on too build this, the bike looks the business. He will probably produce even better bikes after this one. And a great result in the Dakar. Well done China
2:30 idk, I am always in awe when "some old guy on a clapped out" anything rockets past me :D It gives me an illusion of a hope that I still have time and maybe, maybe someday I will be good too!
Where can I get the fuel cap from ? Don’t have a gas bike at the moment or good woman . Hoping to get both
Paraphrasing a quote: "If you earnestly believe you can compensate for lack of skill by doubling your bling, there's no end to what you can't do."
Any bike as long is it gets you out there. It's all about the hang time ;)
Finally, a movement I can get behind!
I've gotten to be the fast old guy a couple times, and its pretty funny. Once I met a grpup of riders behind my house that didnt onow the area, so I offered to show them some good single track. They were on new looking 450's with fancy graphics and gear, with me on my clapped out old YZ250 and Carhartt bibs. Picture Bubba from the old Crusty videos. I figured I better not go so slow they'd be bored, but didn't expect to be waiting for them for so long at the next turn.
Good stuff
Yay X Ronzo racing XR still alive
2000 XR250r rider here. I haven’t been riding all that long ~5years now. Love that old bike. Every time I go ride with new people I get a lot of compliments on the bike and have even had guys on newer bikes start to question if they should sell whatever late model bike they’re on and get an old air cooled bike. No radiator to crack, no electronics to fail, and it only cost me $2200 so I don’t feel too bad beating on it. I know my skills aren’t enough to be riding some crazy 450 any way, so Im plenty happy with that old XR. Makes me smile just about every time I ride it!
They're basically unrideable... best give them to me 😊
I've found that my "bold new graphics" are power washed away just as fast as my old ones.
21 year old fully restored KTM525exc here, rides great just fitted a better seat.v happy!
My favourite bling is different colour powerbands
My KLIM jacket was great till the zipper broke, now I wear my clapped out Tourmaster from 13 years ago.. Lesson learned..
In greece they fix that for 10e
XT250…fuel injection, wide pegs, risers…lucky!!
I have ridden many bikes... and the most fun still comes from my 4 year old KLX230R with a pair of bar risers slapped on it.
Hello, I follow the channel and I love the content, I'm from Portugal and I have a 2006 KTM 525 exc factory, the type of trails I do are fast, some more technical with tighter curves but nothing enduro, a mix of rally raid and cross country. In your opinion, will it be worth switching from KTM to Kove?
My name is Jacob Zuma I have a BMW Thirteen Thousand and 2 million, listen carefully now eight hundred and BMW
Masochism. Great video, thanks so much for doing this.
Came for the bikes stayed for the dogs :)
Sold it after 3 month. Just sh….
“As enduro riders we just ain’t that smart.” Indeed. There should be prison time for removing cats. Notice how the trees in the drone shots look brown on top. They are dying like the planet. Ain’t smart? More like 🤡💩🧠.
That was brilliant. Best insight to Rally ive ever heard. I loved the podcast style, if possible it would be great if it was on Spotify or something to make listening in the car easier. Keep up the good work! I'd love to hear him chat about Africa more.